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Anonymous wrote:What’s the attraction of Wake and BC? Don’t see them as overlaps with Wake being more non-Catholic and BC the reverse.

They are schools decent but not outstanding students can get into that sound respectable enough to most people.

To be clear, they sound respectable to other private school parents who continue (erroneously) to judge colleges on a public/private breakdown like they judge K-12.

A normal person who went to public K-12 will hold BC and Wake in decent regard and know them from sports. They’ll think they are better than U Mass and NC State (roughly par with UNC). Aside from 3 or 4 state flagships public universities are bad.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s the attraction of Wake and BC? Don’t see them as overlaps with Wake being more non-Catholic and BC the reverse.

They are schools decent but not outstanding students can get into that sound respectable enough to most people.

To be clear, they sound respectable to other private school parents who continue (erroneously) to judge colleges on a public/private breakdown like they judge K-12.

Anonymous wrote:BC, Rochester, Tufts for our school.

This is from a big 3 type private school. Middle of the road at a non big 3 is more like Denison, Penn state, TCU, providence college level. Find schools but not as selective as those you listed.

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Anonymous wrote:At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

Wake requires a 3.7 at our private and we have grade deflation. I don’t think it belongs on this list.

Those require a rigorous course of study at ours too, and a lower GPA will work it the rigor is there. On level classes won't cut it.

Anonymous wrote:BC, Rochester, Tufts for our school.

Did you note the course rigor in the OP? It's not there.

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Anonymous wrote:LACs in the 40-60 USNWR range: Union, Dickinson, Sewanee, Gettysburg, Conn College, Rhodes, etc.

Imagine paying $45-50k a year for private high school and your kids end up attending these mediocre no-name colleges, lmao.

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Right! Just go to public school and save $$$

For some families, it’s about the journey not the destination. For us, private was a better fit for our kids and their learning styles (one LD and one “gifted” and an incredibly creative thinker). Had my kids been less of outliers, our public would have been fine. We tried public and switched during middle school. I’m not anti-public school at all but it is less flexible than private and focuses more on testing. For us, it was not about college placement. My super bright kid happens to be the opposite of type A and did not want a school filled with competitive kids so most of the usual suspects were off the table. The one with LDs needed something different. People choose private for different reasons. To many, ithas a value that far exceeds college placement.

Anonymous wrote:Why is calculus a must? Tons of humanities students don't take calculus in our private school, and they are doing just fine.

Really? Where do they go?
Cant get into a t35 without Calc

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Anonymous wrote:LACs in the 40-60 USNWR range: Union, Dickinson, Sewanee, Gettysburg, Conn College, Rhodes, etc.

Imagine paying $45-50k a year for private high school and your kids end up attending these mediocre no-name colleges, lmao.

I would take Tulane, Pepperdine, Santa Clara or Miami in that range.

Why is calculus a must? Tons of humanities students don't take calculus in our private school, and they are doing just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:At our private, without Calculus it would be:

Tulane (ED)
Wake (ED) - non stem or business major
SMU - non business
U-Miami (ED)
Santa Clara
Lehigh (ED)

This is a good list. I’d add Bucknell and Syracuse, maybe ED at both. And Clemson.

My kid from a non-elite private, close the the middle of the class, no calc (precalc). No APs (school does not offer them), a few honors classes (you have to test into honors at the school) was waitlisted at Clemson.

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Anonymous wrote:LACs in the 40-60 USNWR range: Union, Dickinson, Sewanee, Gettysburg, Conn College, Rhodes, etc.

Imagine paying $45-50k a year for private high school and your kids end up attending these mediocre no-name colleges, lmao.

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Right! Just go to public school and save $$$

We tried public, and after the second time my kid got punched, we knew free was not good for our kids.

Anonymous wrote:So this may sound crazy to you; but if you can get from your private HS's CCO (1) the raw admissions for last (few) years and (2) matriculations for same period.
Then input into excel or a chart.
Then ask the paid version of AI to comprehensively examine the data and identify which schools the xy% of the class appears to be admitted to and appears to matriculate; also identify which schools tend to love your HS. It will tell you where the middle gets in (generally).

This is what a private college counselor would do. I did this with our school's data (last 3 years) and the paid version of Claude and GPT. It was a great analysis.

You need a big enough school for this to make sense though.

Anonymous wrote:Not paying big bucks after private high school to go to nice schools Wake or BC. Hello honors programs at State University.

So don’t apply?
We wouldnt go instate…to each their own?

Anonymous wrote:Like SMU but not as good athletics.

Catholic, no Greek life, a commuter school until two minutes ago, BC isn’t “preppy.” It just attracts a ton of middle class Catholics in the northeast so it is whiter than some peer schools.

SMU is preppy.

Not paying big bucks after private high school to go to nice schools Wake or BC. Hello honors programs at State University.